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n. (plural of palmetto bug English)
Usage examples of "palmetto bugs".
Not the common kind they called palmetto bugs, but the sturdier, handsome wild breed.
But every night the fraternal lounge was open, under the skies, in the salt air, out near the beach, and the party was on, and one and all braved the palmetto bugs and the No See'um bugs and celebrated the fact that they were on the scene where this great Cold War adventure was taking place.
The air was alive with whirring palmetto bugs and the ground crawled with creatures that scuttled and clicked.
Like the time she'd screamed about the bugs, the roaches they called palmetto bugs, but it was because the goddamn things were mutants, half of them.
In the blackness her hands came in brief contact with something chitinous and movingthe only things that sprang to her mind were the hideous palmetto bugs that rattled 'round the porch light of her aunt's home in Miami on summer nights.
Quickly he advanced to crickets, palmetto bugs and beyond-hunger incarnate, a perpetual eating machine.